Public Lecture: Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space, 28th November 2012

The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Annual Lecture


Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space

Public lecture at SOAS:


Speaker: Professor Claire Alexander (Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester)

Date: 28 November 2012Time: 5:00 PM -7.00 PM

Venue: SOAS, Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre


Drawing on new empirical research conducted in East London as part of a project on ‘the Bengal diaspora’, this lecture explores the struggle over Bangladeshi identity in Tower Hamlets as exemplified in the monument of the Shahid Minar and the related celebration of Ekushe (Martyr’s Memorial Day), which is usually held to mark the beginning of the Bangladesh national liberation struggle. Bringing together theories of diaspora consciousness and memorialisation, the paper explores the ways in which rituals and memory work both as a form of continuity with the homeland and as a method of claims-staking for minority groups in multicultural spaces.

Organiser: Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Contact email: rg32@soas.ac.uk

Contact Tel: 0207 898 4434

http://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/annuallecture/28nov2012-contested-memories-the-shahid-minar-and-the-struggle-for-diasporic-space.html

The Story of Bangladesh and Bangladeshi People, at home and in the Diaspora

The Story of Bangladesh and Bangladeshi People, at home and in the Diaspora


Brick Lane Circle's second annual conference - 28/29 April 2012, in association with and at the Idea Store Chrisp Street,East India Dock Road, E14 6BT

Saturday 28 April 2012, 1.00-5.00pm

Culture and Identity

1.00pm- Refreshment and networking

1.30pm- I am Bangladeshi by Dr. Shams N Zaman

She graduated in M.B.B.S. from Dhaka University. Later completed M.Sc. from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. She worked in medical research at Johns Hopkins University and at Kings College, Institute of Liver Studies, London for many years. Her medical papers were published in some prestigious international journals like Lancet, BMJ, Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Cancer etc. Many of them are relevant to Bangladeshi population. Dr Zaman later developed an interest in history and undertook studies and research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her historical research and other works which have been published include: Ekusher Shandhayne (Bengali) 1994; Mirza Shaikh Itesamuddin and his Travelogue / Shigurfnama i Velayet : Wonders of Britain 1765-1769 AD. 2003; Forty Short Years : Bangladesh. 2003; The First Bengali Muslim Woman's version of Hajj (Bengali). 2004; Identity through Science, Philosophy and Artistic concepts in the Quran. 2009 and Stories from a British Bangladeshi Grandmother (working title-publication 2012 pending).

3.00pm- Impact of International Events on London Bangladeshis (1971-2011) - an interactive workshop on a new project proposal by Dr Muhammad Ahmedullah (Secretary of Brick Lane Circle)

3.30pm - The Poetics of Nationalism: Poetry and Film in East Pakistan 1952-1971 by Dr Nazneen Ahmed

He is currently Research Assistant on the Leverhume funded Oxford Diasporas Programme project “Religious faith, space and Diasporic Communities in East London, 1880-present.” Prior to this she held a postdoctoral research position in the School of English at the University of Kent on the interdisciplinary project “Radical Distrust: A Cultural Analysis of the Emotional, Psychological and Linguistic Formations of Religious and Political Extremism.” Her D. Phil. in English Literature from Wadham College, Oxford, examined the cultural development of Bangladeshi secular nationalism through literature and cultural production from 1947-1971. Her work examines the intersections between faith, secularism, national identity and gender in the Bangladeshi community and its diasporas as represented in literature, cultural production and archival records. She is currently adapting her thesis into a monograph and writing papers on the religious lives of lascar seafarers in Victorian London and gender and Bangladeshi secular nationalism.


Sunday 29 April 2012, 2.00-4.00pm

Politics and Economy

2.00pm- Refreshment and networking

2.15pm - Title and speaker details TBC

Brick Lane Circle is organising its annual conference in association with the Idea Store Chrisp Street.

Our aim is to bring researchers and scholars on Bangladesh and Bangladeshi people together with the wider community to facilitate improved exchange of knowledge and help promote greater, deeper and wider levels of networking.

For further details or to book a place kindly email mailto:bricklanecircle@yahoo.co.uk

Bangladesh Journals Online

Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) provides free access to a collection of over 75 academic journals published in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a service to provide access to Bangladesh published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.


The journals included cover a range of topics, are scholarly in content and contain original research and are peer reviewed. While there is an emphasis upon scientific topics, there is also coverage of health and development topics, and this resource is recommended for discovering articles which may have been missed by the more mainstream journal indexes.
 
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals. The website also has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts are available to provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles. Each journal has its own home page, where researchers can find information about the aims and scope of the journal, and information on how to submit articles to each journal. Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite."


Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) was initiated in June 2007 and officially launched in September 2007. It is a project supported by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP). It aims to promote the awareness and use of Bangladesh-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. BanglaJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada.

The Journals Online project is part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERii) which provides support to researchers around the world through access to information and training and support for the use of information.
 
Journals currently included in Bangladesh Journals OnLine are:

Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Journal
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal
Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Research
Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy
Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
Bangladesh Journal of Botany
Bangladesh Journal of Child Health
Bangladesh Journal of Genetics and Biotechnology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science
Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Neuroscience
Bangladesh Journal of Nutrition
Bangladesh Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Bangladesh Journal of Pathology
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy
Bangladesh Journal of Plastic Surgery
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research
Bangladesh Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Bangladesh Journal of Zoology
Bangladesh Liver Journal
Bangladesh Medical Journal
Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
Bangladesh Oncology Journal
Bangladesh Veterinarian
Cardiovascular Journal
Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin
Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology
Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences
Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics
Dhaka University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Faridpur Medical College Journal
Ibrahim Cardiac Medical Journal
GANIT: Journal of Bangladesh Mathematical Society
Ibrahim Medical College Journal
IIUC Studies
International Current Pharmaceutical Journal
International Journal of Hepatology
International Journal of Natural Sciences
Journal of Agriculture & Rural Development
Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh
Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Journal of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons
Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners
Journal of Bangladesh Society of Physiologist
Journal of Bio-Science
Journal of Business and Technology (Dhaka)
Journal of Chemical Engineering
Journal of Chittagong Medical College Teachers' Association
Journal of Dhaka Medical College
Journal of Electrical Engineering
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Journal of Life and Earth Science
Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Journal of Medicine
Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Journal of Scientific Research
Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University
Journal of the Bangladesh Association of Young Researchers
Journal of the Bangladesh Chemical Society
Journal of the Bangladesh Society of Anaesthesiologists
Medicine Today
MIST Journal: GALAXY (DHAKA)
Mymensingh Medical Journal
Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology
Pulse
Stamford Journal of Microbiology
Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
TAJ: Journal of Teachers Association
The Agriculturists
University Heart Journal
University Journal of Zoology, Rajshahi University

A Selection of New Books - Asia

A selection of new books from South and South East Asia added to the collection this month are listed below:

Malaysia : human rights report 2008 : civil & political rights. Selangor, Malaysia : Suaram Kommunikasi, c2009.

Baruah, Sanjib (ed). Ethnonationalism in India : a reader. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Brunner, Hans-Peter. North East India : local economic development and global markets. New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.

Buch, Nirmala. From oppression to assertion : women and panchayats in India. Delhi : Routledge India; c2010.

Chowdhury, Kanishka. The new India : citizenship, subjectivity, and economic liberalization. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.

Deo, Nandini. The politics of collective advocacy in India : tools and traps. Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2011.

Faraizi, Aminul Haque, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister. Microcredit and women's empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh. London : Routledge, c2011.

Gilani, Ijaz Shafi, The voice of the people : public opinion in Pakistan 2007-2009. Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Holt, Sarah. Aid, peacebuilding and the resurgence of war : buying time in Sri Lanka. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Hossain, Shahadat. Urban poverty in Bangladesh : slum communities, migration and social integration. London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.

Kaviraj, Sudipta. The imaginary institution of India : politics and ideas. New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, c2010.

Kazi, Seema. In Kashmir : gender, militarization & the modern nation-state. Brooklyn, NY : South End Press, 2010.

Kua, Kia Soong. 20 years defending human rights. Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia : SUARAM, [c2009]


Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza (eds). The British Empire and the natural world : environmental encounters in South Asia. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Leong, Wai Kum. The Singapore Women's Charter : 50 questions. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.

Milner, Anthony. The Malays. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Panagariya, Arvind. India : the emerging giant. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Pande, Ishita. Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal : symptoms of empire. Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Raj, Subhendu Ranjan. Coalition politics in India : dimensions of federal power sharing. New Delhi : Manak Publications, 2009.

Ranganathan, Maya. Eelam online : the Tamil diaspora and war in Sri Lanka. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, c2010.

Roy, Anupama. Mapping citizenship in India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Saif, Lubna. Authoritarianism and underdevelopment in Pakistan, 1947-1958, the role of the Punjab. Karachi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
 
Saravanamuttu, Johan. Malaysia's foreign policy : the first fifty years : alignment, neutralism, Islamism. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.

Schaffer, Howard B. How Pakistan negotiates with the United States : riding the roller coaster. Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2011.

Shaban, Abdul. Mumbai : political economy of crime and space. New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2010.

Shankar, B. L. The Indian Parliament : a democracy at work. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Siddiqui, Kamal  et al. Social formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005 : a longitudinal study of society in a third world megacity. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

de Silva Jayasuria, Shihan. African diaspora in Asian trade routes and cultural memories, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.


Singh, A.K., S.P. Singh and D.S. Sutaria (eds) Gender budgeting and women empowerment in India. New Delhi : Serials Publications, 2010.

Sobhan, Rehman. Challenging the injustice of poverty : agendas for inclusive development in South Asia.  New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2010.

Sury, M. M. India : sixty years of planned economic development, 1950 to 2010. New Delhi, India : New Century Publications, 2010.

Intute World Guide

Intute is well known for its collection of web resources and internet training suite. Less well-known perhaps, and worthy of publicity is its World Guide.

Intute has compiled a series of guides for over 270 countries and territories. These include features, demographics, geography data, interactive world maps, thousands of satellite photos, scrollable city images and links to resources about each country within the Intute database. You can even compare data between countries. You may go straight to the entry for a specific country via the dropdown menu, or you can search for satellite images and features by keyword.

As an example, the entry for Bangladesh, includes a country profile (taken from the CIA World Factbook); demographic information, including population, population age, gender ratios, details on population change and links to labour force data; a selection of maps and geographical information; an overview of key economic data; a selection of key transport and communications information; a selection of satellite images; internet links; and a link to IMF World Economic Outlook data 2008.